Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1949
By Unknown Author.
Description
"Gangsters and Revolutionaries" is the first full-length study of one of the "people's armies" which emerged from the chaotic end of World War II in Indonesia to join the struggle for Indonesian independence in 1945. The study traces the story of the People's Militia of Greater Jakarta from its origins in a loose network of petty criminals and labour bosses in the slums of urban Jakarta and the feudal estates of the surrounding countryside to its destruction at the hands of the Indonesian army in the late 1940s. This book is important for the light it sheds on ...
ISBN(s)
0824813952, 9780824813956
